50 Things Only Those Who Grew Up in the 1970s Remember
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- Growing up in the 1970s was an experience like no other. From funky fashion trends to unforgettable toys and TV shows, it was a decade filled with unique moments that defined a generation. Join us as we dive into 50 things that only those who lived through the ‘70s will truly remember!
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In the 70’s our school made us cover our books because they were reused over and over so we used paper grocery bags and then customized them with markers
Yes! And we’d use brown paper bags so we could draw anything we wanted on them. I remember trying to make the most perfect creases and folds.
Thanks for this throw back as I’d not come up with it on my own. Haha
Exactly 👍
@@blauer2551 Our Rural Electric Company made book covers for us every year...they sponsored them and printed them. Handed out at the beginning of the school year!
I looked forward to wrapping my books.
@@christinemaney2294
LOL.....I thought I was one of the few whose Mother did that.
But yeah it was great for doodling and having friends leave comments.
I'm currently 59 years old so I gotta think this is an old practice.
So happy I was a part of this generation ❤️
IMO its the last generation of people raised with need of independence and freedom inside their hearts. :( Now most ppl is educated to have the need only for comfortable golden cage of technocracy and state apparatus (welfare or social whatever they call is in USA). :(
So true
"Am".
Me too😊
@@TallisKeeton very true!
Born in 1969, I had the privilege of growing up in the 70s and 80s. The best time to be a kid.
Yes, I often feel bad four kids now adays. I feel our childhood was full of magic and wonder in comparison. Back then seeing a group of children having fun around the neighborhood was so normal. Now adays if it happens at all, it's viewed as strange.
69er here. It was the best, 70s and 80s!
For me 1966 and I loved the 70s and 80s.
Yep those of us who survived the 70's AND 80's as a kid deserve some sort of medal. We survived impossible odds if today's standards are anything to go by xD.
Born in 1969 we are so lucky to grow up back then
I miss the 70s. What a great time to be a kid!
Them and the 80's were my growing up years. I dare say and I do mean every syllable of it...they were a VASTLY superior time to grow up in (compared to now). VASTLY...SUPERIOR.
Great to be a kid and come through all the years 👌👍 I feel blessed .. tbh missed any horrible wars etc
Yes, the 70s were a great time to be a kid! FAR better than the 80s! Everything good about our culture fell apart in the 80s, and people often seem to think that was a good thing.
@@marklane61 not only to be a kid, better time for everyone!!
I wish i could go back as an adult 🙏🏻
@@noahhyde8769 So true!! I had so much fun in the 70's and 80's. 💯
I was born in 1961 and remember all of these. 50s, 60s, 70s were the best times for kids to grow up in. I miss these days, and I would go back in a heartbeat. ❤👍
@@tonycollazorappo I was born in 1968, so I also remember cap guns, Atari, which for us, we were the first ones in the neighborhood to get in the late 1970s, Wonetco Home Theater (WHT) before cablevision was available, the town pool where there would about 30 of us kids replicating midnight wrestling, which came on at Saturday night at midnight at channel 11 (WPIX) in New York. In addition, our bicycles were very important, as was a football, frisbee, Wiffle ball and bat, and Stickball. Those were the days my friends and I might go fishing at a local pond, ride our bicycles through some wooded areas, rough housed, played Hide and Seek using our neighbors’ backyards as hiding spots, which is something I would never recommend anyone doing today, and it was a time when us kids would knock on each other’s doors to come out after we finished eating our overly sugar cereals after watching the good weekend cartoons like Bugs Bunny and Pink Panther. Despite real dangerous people plaguing the towns and no cameras anywhere, us kids were safe, as we traveled in packs, had awareness of who was around, and we essential knew older people nearby we knew we could always count on if need be. But back then police patrolled the area in their cars anyway, so even during the days of the Son of Sam, I think we were safe. We played with each other, where sometimes a fistfight occurred. After the fight, the two would shake hands, apologize, and resume a friendship as if nothing happened. We learned how to communicate. We had the life. When Start Wars came about, our mothers drove us kids to watch the movies by picking up five kids before going back and picking up five more. By the time the movie ended, I counted 26 of us who walked home from the movie theater. Wonderful times. I still feel bad for the generations of kids that came after us.
I was born in 1968, and I'm with you. Seeing these things brings back great memories, and yes, I would go back to those days. Great times!
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1959 I was born; NEVER ever did we drink from glass milk bottles in school, always the little cardboard cartons.
I don't ever remember an 8-track tape cutting a song in mid play unless you pulled it out of the player or pressed the button to advance the program.
What do you mean the 50, 60, 70 were the best time for kids to grow up in?
Now we have 1/3 kids self-reporting autism, 20% of children reporting (SAD) social anxiety disorder, up to 20% kids reporting ADHD, almost 10% of kids reporting gender confusion, and 15% reporting suicidal. That's 100% of kids.
This IS the generation of the victim and OF COURSE, any other time would have been better to grow up in, my GOD have you seen who is going to be President!?!
Born in 65 I grew up with all this stuff, banana seat bikes- slime- wacky packages- the game Clue- sit and spin- frisbees- Pixie Sticks- tube tops- Mad Magazine- Beer Can Collecting- Magic 8 Ball- slip and slide- roller skating/skateboarding and so many more
I was born in 1962 and would go back to the 70s in a time capsule in a flash. What a fabulous time to be a kid. Glad I was there.❤️✌🏾
@@Dan-nt2yb I was born in 1963 and agree 100%
born in 65' and I agree
I was born 1966 and me too!
1961 Baby....Touche'
62 here, too...and yes, I would go back in a heartbeat!
Me in 1975: Think about 50 years from now, how amazing it must be in the future...
Me in 2025: Think about 50 years ago, how amazing everything was then...
Just a personal reflection.
people forget some of the things that were not so much fun about back then. what really made those times magical was people treated each other far differently, and had different priorities than they do now.
Agree to both.
Won’t be long now and the ride will be completely over
You nailed it. We all thought the future would be brighter and better and now I find myself looking back at the 70s wishing I had appreciated it for what it was, probably the best time to be a white American in the history of the country. Not so much now.
Same here, when we were kids, people would make all these wonderful predictions about life beyond year 2000, but now we're here , we look back & wwish we could go back to those childhood days!
The seventies were the “Wonder Years” I’m grateful my parents married in 1961 and I was born in 1962. We had the best childhood growing up. This video highlighted everything. We didn’t have any crazy technology, we had a tv without a remote, one rotary dial phone attached on the kitchen wall with a long stretchy cord, we rode our bikes everywhere. Had to come inside when the street lights came on. We used our imaginations to play and entertain ourselves. Saturday morning cartoons and after school shows on tv. The Munsters, The Addams Family, The Three Stooges, etc etc. I ❤️ the 70’s ! Thank you Mom and Dad
@@jackiebarnes5117 you said it!!:-)
Very similar in germany that time, but without tv after school. They did not broadcast so early.
Since I was three I can't remember, that I was not allowed to go everywere.
@@jackiebarnes5117 Don't forget Flintstones, Gilligan's Island, and Hogan's Heroes!
And don’t forget the little rascals 😁😁😁😁😁😁
We did have a tv remote --- me! Good thing is that we only had 5 or 6 channels when mom or dad wanted to channel surf.
Born in 67. I loved growing up in the 70's. Man do I miss Saturday morning cartoons and What's Happening Saturday nights!
Born in 65 , I love the 70s
Another 67'er here. Ridin bikes and skateboards. Going to the roller-skating rink on Saturday night.
@halfstep67 Yup! Same here. Although I really sucked on a skateboard. 🤣
@@ronhoughton5147 Me Too. I had to sit on the board! LOL.
@ronhoughton5147 me too born in 1967
I was a teenager in the 1970s. As kids and teens, we had a lot of freedom!
Yes, I lived a Huckleberry Finn type life when I grew up in the 70's.
@@user-vp1sc7tt4m Same! Literally I was messing around in the “crik” (creek) turning over rocks to find and catch crawdads. Riding bikes all day…spying on other kids in the neighborhood….hide and seek and catching firefly’s after dark. Great times 💜💜💜
I used to go all over the neighborhood when I was 2 years old. One time a church bus picked up my 3 year old sister. She was found sitting up in a high chair eating snacks at the church. Fortunately a neighbor saw her get on the bus and told my mother 😄. I can remember going into the offices of factories and talking to the secretary or getting a drink out of their water fountain. My mom didn't seem to worry about where we went. Crazy!
@@pamelacolvin1417My mom cared but wasn't over protective. I did find a way to get across the street without crossing it, though. I got a ride to the police station and ice cream while they found out where I came from. There was none of this child endangerment arrests for a kid being a kid back then. Early 1960s.
@@theelephantintheroom8016 we finally got a city bus near our house and we could safely ride it and go to the mall as young teens. No one worried about getting hurt.
I was born in 1960. I remember so many things, drive in movies, pen pals, waiting on the post man, Bruce Lee, the freedom!! and of course the music and Discos 🎉
Haha pen pals, such a magical time. Then taking a field trip to meet your pen pal at the end of the school year and finding out they were just some geek lol.
Lots of freedom. The only concerns our parents warned us about was to not talk to strangers and don’t take candy from a stranger.
You were a 60s kids until the early 70s then you were mostly a teen in the 70s ❤
I was born in 1959. Those were the best days of our lives. Things were so simple, less stress, if we only knew how good we had it☺️💋
I was born in 59 also. I've lived my life already through an era of relative stability, economically and politically. It's the generation that hasn't started school yet that I feel sorry for. Woke culture, DEI initiatives, cancel culture, the Alphabet Mafia, unsafe schools, metal detectors and cops in the halls, drug epidemics, expensive rent and groceries, Jobs that pay nowhere near a career salary and/or enough to save some of that pay. Horrible healthcare, no mass transit to speak of, requiring you to buy a car and drive everywhere which costs thousands per year, open borders with no meaning of citizenship, etc, etc.
I was born in 1953 (right smack-dab in the middle of the Baby Boom) and I think that in this era of the 21st Century... "It's a very strange world we live in, master Jack..."
When we were kids in the 70's we were gone all day and didn't come home until dinner or when it got dark. All day outside with friends. No larding in front of a TV we played and stayed active and in shape. All my parents would do is have to look at me and I'd behave. I was born in 1959 too and I/we lived a life that kids today would never be able to handle
@@sueraymo3239 You're right, there. Today's pixel zombies posing as kids and young people would melt into a sobbing puddle at the very NOTION of a developed brain and physical exercise.
@@sueraymo3239 I was born in September 59. The stuff kids play on the PlayStation now we actually did back then. I remember a group of us playing gladiator in the backyard. We would use the metal trash can lids for shields and a stick with a rock tied to the end as a weapon. You were supposed to hit the other guys shield but it didn't always work out that way. Did we get hurt ? Nothing major. Mom would hit it with some iodine and back in the fight you went. Couldn't imagine today's kids doing that.
How did we survive back then, playing outside till dark, camping in the woods without parents, semi dangerous toys, tackle football without pads, swimming in the creek.We grew up able to not be hurt by words.
@@frankdelph6677 I used to climb trees thinking I was Spiderman till one day I climbed to high and looked down and froze my neighbor came with a ladder and such and got me down
Sounds like we had same childhood... 67XR
Right no one cared, you were made tough!
Some didn't .
I was the youngest kid, a girl. My brothers pitched in and got me a complete football gear, helmet, pads, etc so that I could be the running back and get full on tackled. So much fun!
I think the 70's & 80's were the best decades to grow up in!!! Go Gen Xers!!! 💜💜💜
@@lorimckellarAKAloutae tail end boomers born in 59 and 60 are right there with you.,,
I was born in 62, and actually growing up in the 70s was fantastic. Lots of fun, no worries, was not allowed in the house after School, you were expected to go out and play but be home by 5 pm for supper. This was where everyone’s at the kitchen table and ate what was put in front of you. Saturday nights was hockey night in Canada we only had two channels and one tv, times were very simple.
Oh, yes, home arrest and being grounded was the worse penalty ever. What a difference compared to nowadays.
Kinda weird you weren't allowed home after school until 5 pm? ....In 1980 grade school, I could come straight home. Or go to a friend's house after school to play for a couple hours. I remember walking the half mile to grade school. With a group of friends in the morning. Being some of my best childhood memories. In winter ☃️ ❄️ Northern Illinois 3 or 5 of us playing in snow drifts along the way. Or "bumper skiing" to school when we got older. We would hide by stop 🛑 sign on a 20 mph snow covered street. Run out & grab a cars bumper. At the stop sign, in a skiing position & get pulled to school.
@@davidtaylor6885
Yep, lots of freedom!
There was one Mom in the neighborhood who a bell on her back porch. When you heard the bell, it was time for dinner and head home!
@@michaelbrinks8089 he said wasn’t allowed INSIDE the house after school… had to go outside and play…pretty much same at my house - Mom wanted us out of her hair while she made dinner 😉
Eats what's put in front of you and can't leave the table til your plate was clean
I grew up in the 70s and I had a great childhood. I was into BMX bikes and dirt bikes and anything that was outdoors. We drank water out of anybody's water hose that was closest and we got dirty 😊. We stayed outside until that dreaded scream from mom to come inside lol. I still have scars from those amazing years and memories galore. Grateful I grew up before social media .
@@sheldon6248 And skateboarding too!
We had to be home when the street lites came on,and you could find blueberries ,blackberries ,apples ,rhubarb,catch fish and frogs and bring it home and Mom would cook it for dinner or desert,rode in the back of pickups,every Tuesday in elementary school we brought our ..22 rifles on the bus to school for gun safety class and target practiceq
Kids now wouldn't know what a rotary phone was let alone how to use it I still remember our phone number and the numbers of my friends from the 60s-70s but now I don't know any of them I just look at the picture of my son or whoever I'm calling and tap the screen
@ haha! I remember when we still opened soda pop can with a can opener punching to triangle holes in the can on opposite sides!
@kt6332 great times weren't they? 😊👍
Born 1971... 70's and 80's were a great time to grow up.
If you remember all these items...CONGRATULATIONS...You hit the Life lottery for a kid.
Only if your family wasn’t messed up like mine.
@@ResolUloseR I remember walking to the store just to buy a coke with deposit glass bottles we gathered from the trash or neighbors.....and penny candy😎 a candy bar was about 5 cents......
@Nocha-l2r I remember $0.29 cheeseburgers from McDonald's. Effing HELL we're old...aren't we?
@@Nocha-l2rWe were living out of town and I would walk for miles collecting pop bottles and empty beer cans beside the road in the early 70s. Then I would walk miles to town to get the refund on them.
@@johnshaw6702 😂 can you imagine kids doing that today??
Best years ever, best music, best cars & hair do's !
Best time was to be a kid in the 60s and a teen in the 70s
@@BlazinRiver1 I went to woodstock..I was 18. It was the time of my life. We will never have that music back again. Sex...drugs and rock and roll. Yea baby! I even turned out alright. lol
Don’t forget Soul Train, American Bandstand, Sanford and Son, Good Times and the Jeffersons. These shows also defined an era long gone.
LOVED AB and ST for the music.
@@Jojodancer1978 All In The Family... The Little Rascals. Bugs Bunny, RoadRunner...
What's happening was a great series too.
Sanford and Son! That show was fantastic! Fred and Lamont….great memories of watching those shows every week - as a family!
@@lizzieb6311 All in the Family was better.
1967 Gen Xer here. I remember all this stuff. Loved being a kid in the 70s. One of the best times to grow up.
1967 too. I agree that growing up in the 1970s rocked!❤❤❤
1970 Here. My parents bought a brand new house in 1971. We lived in that neighborhood for 15 years. Older kids who were teenagers in the 70's were my baby sitters so I learned about Van Halen, Eagles and AC/DC on 8 track. We started out on 70's Schwinn Stingrays but soon the early 80's came along and switched to BMX Diamondbacks and Mongoose bikes, later wide skateboards (Santa Cruz, Powell Peralta, ect.)
We rode miles on our bikes, we had three parks and 4 elementary schools one Jr. high school to go off and play. Hide and go seek after dark. What a great time.
Best part of that I am 54 and I still call and text a few of those older kids who watched me growing up pretty much my older brothers and a best friend who moved in when I was 7 and we still talk and visit to this day.
Clackers were also a great weapon. Ditto on 67. And I remember all this stuff.
1969 , yep I agree best time to grow up and be a kid. I had all this stuff in the video. 😂
The last great erra children's of the 70s and 80s after that, it's been downhill.
Born in 57, growing up in the 60s, teenage years in the 70s, married in the 80s, it didn't get better than that. People like me were sooooo fortunate.
Timing is everything brother. I'm right in your rear view mirror!! Blessed by the best!!
And NOW you get to live in a decade where a Band from Japan (BAND-MAID) plays great rock music reminiscent of all the best 70's and 80s bands you ever loved with musicianship that puts many of those old rockers to shame! If you haven't tried them, you will be doing yourself a favor by doing so now. "Thrill" - th-cam.com/video/Uds7g3M-4lQ/w-d-xo.html
1/21/57 first of the year and a best year for Chevrolet LOL do you agree
Ironic, i was last of the year, 12/31/1957.....just turned 67, yikes! GOD bless you, brother.@richardgray8939
@@mermaidmelodies1492 Puts old rockers to shame???? NEVER! Band Maid is OK but they aren't all that...
Born in '68! Loved that world so much. I feel like we live in an alternate reality because its so much different. I keep hoping someone will invent a time machine so i can go back and stay in that time forever.
Good times, I graduated high school in 1975, I have fond memories of this time. Kids today will never know the joy of slamming a rotary phone handset, hit it hard enough and ding the bell. Lets not forget Saturday morning cartoons.
@@jeffjankiewicz5100 graduated 76 Jeff and your so right ✌️
I'm a 75 grad. Loved those sat cartoons! Miss those simple times in the country in summer. Sucks getting older. Peace from Northern Michigan.
I graduated the same year but the 60s were better. America was becoming a shithole by the mid late 70s. Today its 20xs worse.
All these people born in the 60s claiming they grew up in the 70s.....lol Class of 76 here.
@@Doug-mc3dd I think you are right.
Best time to be a kid. I loved the summers! We were latch key kids. I was the first one up every morning ate breakfast and out the door into the woods. We wood play in the creeks build tree forts or underground forts, build dams in the creek catching frogs, turtles and snakes. We were always outside until dinner around 6 pm then back outside to play flash light tag at night.
We were active, adventurous and took care of each other!
Wow, flashlight tag, boy do I remember that. Hiding from cars also at my grandmothers house. Catching fire flies, fishing in the creek catching sun fish, going lamprey gigging - boy they were scary..., swimming in the creek in thunderstorms LOL - boy how we didn't get struck I don't know, but it was fun doing what you wasn't supposed to do :)... All this brings back so many incredible memories, plus remembering that friends were friends just hanging out and enjoying life. Where did I put my time machine?, it sucks I lost it...
It really was so much fun. Running barefoot through the grass. Hide and go seek. Being outside, playing in the creek, riding bikes. And yes, even as a girl, learning to pick up 'crawdads' as we called them, with out getting pinched. Sledding in the winter. Our then small town would fill the small gravel parking lot at the city park with water, once it was cold enough to freeze. We would walk down at night to ice-skate, then go over to a burn barrel for light and warmth. There really was true adventure then. I thank God for all the blessings we were given, even in imperfect situations and an imperfect world.
@ Yes! The sledding, snowball fights, ice skating on frozen ponds! So much is coming back to me, all that was so much fun, it has a lot to do with me trying to spend as much time outdoors that I can even now!
Thanks for those memories!
You nailed my childhood weekend mornings to a T!!! I was born in 68, from Orlando Florida. 70's were the best!!!
I did the same stuff outside, especially building dams and collecting crayfish for fishing, bate. I hiked alone for miles through the woods.
I would like to add one: Evel Knievel. During the 70's so many kids in my neighborhood would build ramps and jump over tires, dirt piles, you name it. Evel was an idol to young boys, of course, when we inevitably crashed our bikes, our parents were pissed. 😂
Good one. Yes, my brother ended up at the doctor's office!
OMG in second grade we sat on the deck in Twin Falls, ID. and watched Evel bomb. There were passionate 5:53 arguments in the schoolyard between kids who liked him, and those who didn’t.
Not sure if it’s true or not, but the rumor is that Evel got run out of town for not paying his bills. 😂
I added Evel Knievel plus his toy stunt cycle in my comment too . I still carry my reminders of several failed bicycle jumps. Still having the scars to this day. Lol
I got to meet Evel Knievel and get his autograph at the All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, OH. The dude was cool.
They forgot Lawn Darts. So glad I grew up in the 70s and 80s. What a great time to be a kid.
Hell yeah! As teens in the 80's, we used lawn darts to play "chicken"
i got a lawn dart through my right foot once. i had to hide it from my parents so i wouldn't get into trouble.
We used to stand against the house and fast pitch softball style lawn darts at each other! Separated a few ribs along the way. Good times, good times!
Ralphie's son got hurt by one of dose, Tony didn't care
Oh man, those things! My brother almost got blinded- stuck right in the corner of his eye!! 😂😂
Life was so good in the 1970s.
Fun, less stress and active.
I was born in 1974, so I grew up both a 70’s and 80’s kid. I remember all of these. Kids in the 70’s and 80’s were the last generations that were raised the old school way. I miss those days.
What great times. I remember it all. Hanging out with friends… actually in person!!!
My god yes, and since they're weren't cell phones to keep us in our circle, it was lots of different people we met. Of course we didn't care or even care to know if they were a democrat or republican.
I remember all of this! Great memories here! We were out the door after eating breakfast on the weekends and only came home - or went to our friends house- when we were hungry. Then, back out again…riding bikes…exploring…or watching the boys play basketball or baseball. Back home at dinner time …. Back out AFTER dinner and washing dishes - and gone until dark. What a life!
Nobody knew where you were.
Nobody knew what you were doing.
And nobody could call you on your cell phone and check on you.
Parents weren’t helicopters back then.
Yep you were never home back then. Always out doing something. Unless there was bad weather, then you could sit at home with your buddies taking turns crank calling random people from the phone book because there was no caller ID or anything lol.
@@kathyt2108 Yes…thank goodness. And we turned out to be self sufficient productive adults. Interesting, eh? My childhood was growing up in a lower middle class family with many tuna sandwiches and casseroles and wearing out the same two pairs of jeans I got at each school year start. Nothing fancy. It was the BEST! ♥♥♥🥹
@@reignman30 haha! Yeah, caller ID ruined that form of entertainment for sure! We’d sit in the den huddled around the phone and act like we were doing “nothing wrong” when my Mom would come in the room. She always squinted her eyes at us and shook her finger giving us ‘the warning’ 😂
Will be 61, March 4. I find myself (when I am alone) singing about Nouns and Adjectives,Intersections, Verbs and all of the others. I have no idea why. But I loved being a kid in the 70s. Summer it was dawn till dusk. Baseball, bikes. Packing a lunch and exploring. Every kind of tag. Thank you guys.😎😎😎
Lol. I still sing the song, "I'm just a bill"
Cartoon tag, lol and 'ghost in the graveyard' on summer bughts
I'm STILL waiting for a cake to finish in my sister's Easy Bake Oven that I started in 1978😂
@@bonusbaby801, did you use a 300 W bulb to bake your cake? That’s the key. Anything less and the cake didn’t get done.
I ended up eating the batter everytime.😏
😂😂😂😂🍻🍻🇨🇱🇨🇱🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@bonusbaby801 that's because there was no timer!
@@bonusbaby801 for sure
By the time my older sisters were tired of their Easy Bake oven I got to play with it but by that time we didn’t have the right mix and the light bulb burnt out 😌
I was born in 1962. I miss the 70s wish i could do it all over again !!!
'61 here. I second that!
1962 here too. I totally agree with you 😊👍
Me too!
I was born in 1970. I had the best life. The 70’s as crazy as it was and the 80’s with the amazing music. Now I’m seeing all of the things of my childhood. Wow.
80's music was THE BEST!
Back when kids had an imagination!
Best of times 😁
Back when there was maybe only one overweight kid per class lol. Now if your kid doesn't show up overweight, they call CPS on you for neglect.
70s-80s growing years. Would go back again in a heart beat
You and me both and to know what we know now! Oh heck yeah!
60-70's...HELL YEA.
I was born in 1972 and I remember all these wonderful things. It was SUCH a gift to be born in this era, I thank God. Thank you for walking us down Memory Boulevard, some of these I had forgotten and was nice to see them again. Great video!
Born in 66 and that was my youth also. Best time to grew up, no nintendo no internet no cellphone and that’s what matters and made us to who we are today 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@hohenstaufen.1010 That’s my year too
@ best year ever 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@hohenstaufen.1010 I’m proud to be a 66er too! 🙂🙃🙂
@@kt6332 me to, and 666. Sixth month of 66 😁
Same here...
Wow, I had no idea that this video would bring tears to my eyes! I feel fortunate to have grown up from the ‘60s! 😢
Why do I feel ancient all of a sudden lol, those were great times and I remember you could walk miles at night with your friends and nobody would bother you ❤
Born in 1966 and grew up in the 70s, I vividly remember each thing mentioned in the video. Thanks for starting my day off on a high note!
I was born in 1968. The greatest time to be a kid. And the craziest things that you can imagine we did and survived. No internet, no cell phones just having fun being kids.❤ 9:31
As an older teen in the 70's I remember hitchhiking, girls in rabbit fur jackets, and drive-in movies
I had a rabbit fur jacket, and foot. EWWW.
Wow Hitch hiking girls. I remember that....can you imagine that today? How about a cop making you spill your beer onto the street? lol Much more trusting times.
@@carabela125 👍🥹 Now we’re talking.
Born in 67 I have watched a ton of these videos on TH-cam over the years. This was the best one ever! Educational and so inclusive. Excellent compilation!
I agree 👍
@@csbsdunbar Me too! Definitely a great compilation! 👍
I grew up in the 70's and I loved it! It was the best time to grow up! EVER!💞
Yeah it was... Especially for little kids, we didn't know about the war so much, we had bussing issues in boston....we didn't became aware until the 80's- 70s was a blast!
Oh smelling the mimeograph papers! That just came up in this video. That is SO funny!
And we were all skinny
I was born in 68 and this brings back some of the best memories I've ever had. Thank you God for letting me be born during an era where we had so much fun!
I remember all these things but didn't realize that I was living the life😊
We didn't know what we had till it was gone.
This universally applies to everything in life
I grew up in the 70's. What a great decade! Fun TV shows- only four networks, great toys, excellent music, and playing outside for hours 🙂
This was a really fun video to watch. It'll get you away from all the disturbing things happening today. I was so blessed to have grown up in the 70s. Me, my stingray bike exploring the world with my baseball glove hanging on the handlebars.
Who remembers just stopping by someone’s place if you were nearby? Now without calling, texting , posting or whatever if you stop by someone’s house it’s a huge situation here days……
@EdGraham-e9m - Kids would come to my side door and yell my name repeatedly for me to come out.
Facts
I grew up in the early 2000s & would ride my bmx bike to my friends so we’d all go to the trails
Someone would get triggered and need therapy if you just showed up at their house unannounced today. And you'd probably get arrested for stalking.
I remember cruising thru the neighborhood just to see who was out shooting hoops or tossing the football before you knew it the other "cruisers" were stopping by and we had a game going. The parents loved it and always wanted to be the host home. My dad made pizza from scratch and everyone wanted to go to my house after the Friday football game.
Growing up during the 70s was the greatest.
I was born in 1965 and the Beatles were still a band! Never knew how special these decades were until they were over.
@@ChemWatcher 'Beatles '65' was my first album. Walked by a homeless guy recently and he had that album on top of his pile of sidewalk stuff!?💿
The best decade to be a kid. ❤️
The 70s was also by far the best decade ever for music. Not even the 60s beat it.
Best decade for movies too
What a funny and nostalgic trip down memory lane this was. Growing up in the '70's was the best, so fun and carefree! Big wheels, passing notes in class, Frisbees, G.I. Joe's, metal lunch boxes, and Scooby Doo... those days were like no other!
I still have (and use) my GI Joe metal lunch box, and it still has my name and phone # on it with the prefix "MElrose 1" instead of "631".
@@ddoggall hats off to ya!
@@ddoggall
I had forgotten about that.
My phone number started Gr5 - Greenfield. I don’t recall the rest of the numbers, but that was the 1960’s and 70’s.
Matchbox cars, Hot wheels, disco, banana seat bikes... all things that made growing up in the 70's so fun! That and my family enjoyed playing games and going places together! Scooby Doo! T.H.
my mom turned hot wheels tracks into a deadly weapon.
@@ThHu-ov8rh I still have my banana seat bike and I'm 62 lol
Me and friends played with matchbox cars all the time. Built roads in the dirt, got nice and dirty.
We used to put playing cards in the spokes of our bike tires to pretend the noise it made was a motorcycle!
@@ThHu-ov8rh We didn't wear helmets, and we're still alive
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Born in 1960, loved them all, and wouldn't change it for the world
Looking back on that time, the thing that stands out most is that it was a very colorful period. Clothing, cars, interior decorations, cartoons, food--in contrast to what happened later with beige and then black (blah!). I had several pairs of striped bell-bottom slacks. I remember one was ride, white, and blue. Another was multi-colored like fruit-striped gum. Even plaid pants were kind of cool. And who remembers the "silk" shirts? That was a huge trend in the mid-70s.
I was born in 1965, the 70's was the best time of my life, next to spending 20 years in the Marine Corps, I always have many memories of having fun in the 70's.
And lets not forget the pure satisfaction of slamming that receiver down on the base of that phone and the nice dinging sound it made !! LOL 😂
I was born in 1970 and watching this IS my young years of childhood. Thanks for posting. 😊 🇨🇦
Only thing those, no glass bottled milk was all in Paper cartons then.
You came on board 10 yrs too late to enjoy all the fun we had in the mid seventies.😂
@@johnwhodat8135 What is that supposed to mean? The narrator is talking about being a kid in the 70’s. Not a 30 year old.
@@kimmyhawk5612 born in70 ..missed all the fun. Nothing was happening in the 80s and on.
@@barrybebenek8691 71' here… and yeah, the 70's and 80's were the best years!
I'm 60 years old, and this is my era. Toys, games, fashion, and TV shows! 💯😃👍
Oh my gosh, can we please go back to this time. I miss it so bad ❤❤❤❤❤❤. Pure simplicity and so much fun!!!
I'm so glad I grew up in the 60s 70s and 80s! I did so much stupid sh!t- and there is no record of it anywhere!
Yes , brilliant 😂
Did not have to worry about your green being spiked or made by a person.
Roller skates with metal wheels!! We were mad terrors on those things, and we’d try to ‘skid’ our wheels to make sparks all the time!!
I can STILL see all the white marks those wheels left all up and down the sidewalk. LOL!!!
Holy moly! Remember skate keys?!
We are old!!!!! 😂😂
@tro8191 Same here!!🤣😂
They were great until you’d hit a stone or a hole in the sidewalk, then they’d hurt like hell, as they fell off and whipped around your foot! I can safely forget this memory! My kids had shoe skates, lucky kids!
@@JewlietooDefinitely! It sneaks up on you while you’re not paying attention😂
I remember all of these. I went to woodstock and still standing. Best time of my life! This comment section is wonderful. So many great memories. Thank you...we made it out alive!
Loved Saturday morning cartoons!
I lived for Saturday morning
I was a teen in the 70s .. watching Saturday morning cartoons after smoking a roach. 😂
@@johnwhodat8135 Or two...
Born in 65. I have fond memories of growing up in the 70's. Playing outside with my friends was epic. We had races with skateboards and big wheels. We knew how to entertain ourselves and made our own money with lemonade stands and mowing yards.
I babysat and made on 50 cents an hour. My mom wouldn’t let us raise the price to 75 cents when our girlfriends did! I think it took me 16 hours of babysitting to get an album. Something’s are definitely better today!
Kids played outside AND they walked to school……..what a novel concept !!!!
@@Gordie-v7n I know I did 😎
Yes. And we were all skinny @@jonathanzoellick8602
i was a kid in the 50's a teenager in the mid to late 60's and in my twenties in the 70's and I remember every one of these things and wore all the clothing, it was a fabulous time to be young.
I Love These Types Of Uploads. Talk About Nostalgic...SIMPLY WONDERFUL 👌🏿!!!
I was born Winter, 1970. I almost teared watching this! Memories of every single item on here. I owned 99.9% of everything in this video, yes, 99.9% of everything, even a Cobra CB Radio, also a Motorola brand!! All the lunch boxes I wish I never threw away!! So missed!
Born January 1970. My Big Wheel took serious abuse from constant drift racing on concrete, asphalt and dirt/gravel when I was five. The pedal breaks wore a flat spot on the front wheel. The hand break contact blade wore down to a nubbin. Damn I had FUN!! Watching hours of Saturday morning cartoons uninterrupted, eating chemical laced sugar (Cap'n Crunch Berries) was priceless.
@@PatrickKydland-f5u I was a big fan of Cap’n Crunch Berries!
When they included the Big Wheel on the list, I just knew the Green Machine would be there too. Oh well I guess it didn't make the cut😂😢
Mine had that little metal nob on the back that made it sound like a "motorcycle"..drove my mother nuts, told my dad to take it off... Lol
I was born in 1960. Yup, the 70’s were awesome😀
@@darrylsjodin7184 same here! ☺️
Thanks for the memories. I'm 64 and the 70's was the best decade of my life.
The “Peechee” Folder was more of a 70s thing than the Trapper Keeper. Everyone would either draw additional images or modify the ones that were already there. My favorite was to draw the Jaws shark surfacing to bite the leg of the tennis player. Good times 😂
@@pjesf The Peechee was the best! Good pull!
Yes, I don’t believe I had one, it was my children that I bought those for in the ‘80s!
I was born in 1956 , you brought back a lot of wonderful memories!! Fantastic years !
Born in 1964 and getting to stay up late Saturday Nights to Watch Creature Features and Svengoolie and I remember All of these things from the 70’s for Sure. Those Were The Good Ole Days 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Creature double feature!
We weren't allowed to watch TV on Saturdays when Mom was around, but our neighbors did.
Their parents went out on saturdays, their TV was in the living room, they were not allowed to have friends inside
So we all stood on their porch and watched from outside!
Lol!
Best decades 70s 80s
Model year 65 here. Life was great then. I remember all this. I have schoolhouse rock on dvd!
14:33 pronounced Spy Row Graph! My mother was a professional artist & she often bought us all kinds of art supplies & things like & including the Spirograph to get us interested in art. The Spirograph was great!
Agreed- I wondered if this video was done by a real person because of the wrong pronunciation of this and macramè.
I am a 61 years young retired high school teacher and I can assure you I have seen this change in teenagers during my 35 year career. Too many snowflakes! ❄️❄️
Remember those Swanson TV dinners whenever moms were too tired to cook dinner.😂
Loved the dessert- the apple pie, the brownie... that makes me think of TV trays- eating in the living room on TV trays :)
@@berlingolingoful yep, eating on those trays in the living room in front of that floor model TV. I would hate how half of the corn would end up in the desert especially the brownie. 😂😂
@tyannaist 😂 yes!
And in those foil trays.
@@tyannaist yup, n banquet pot pies
Born in ‘73. My head just about exploded from nostalgia watching this video. Ty!
I love the 70s. It was a great time to grow up.
Best times ever.. 70s had the best music. Kids in the neighborhood got together to play kick the can. Capture the flag. .. great times
I grew up in the 70s and I think that it was truly the last of the innocent times...When you were out, the only way to stay in touch was a land line...No internet, cell phones, etc...the world held so much mystery and was so large
I think the 80s were pretty innocent as well.
@@Youttubi they were to a point...but the 80s ushered in cell phones, rudimentary internet, pagers, etc, but I get your point
@@neckarsulme No, the 80s are what brought in the beginnings of political correctness.
I enjoyed the stroll down Memory Lane. Thank you.
Ohhhhh, if I could only go back ❤❤❤
Have at it. I rather not.
Lego Blocks are a real treat to step on with bare feet. 😱
I’m not one of those good old days types but not having moon-bases and flying cars in 2025. I’ll go back in a second. 🫡
I was born in 1964 the 70's and 80's were my WONDER YEARS all of the toys and game bikes etc were a part of my childhood Lionel Trains, Hot Wheels, Electric Race Car Tracks 🏁 Evel Knievel, Tonka Trucks, Big Wheel🙆🏽...PRINCE ROGERS NELSON was truly the sound track of my life.
I wish we could go back !!!
@@Corvetteguy816 agree with you 💯% .
I partly agree; from a healthcare perspective, I would prefer this era.
We’re all Goonies - and Goonies NEVER give up!!!!!
kids these days wouldn't make it back then,, was a great time to be a kid.. we actually played outside
Yep born in ‘63. Loved it! Great memories
Bring back dodge ball! Some of these young people need to experience a good game of dodge ball lol
I was born in November 1973 so I remember a lot of the 70s and then the 80s. No people anywhere on Earth will ever have such a awesome childhood. I remember when MTV started , Saturday morning cartoons, and my parents were sort of hippies. Always happy. My daughter has no idea . To her it's like I'm from the stone age. She didn't come till after 2000 so we did grow up in different centuries. I'm glad I watched this. We really had it good. Maybe better than anyone will ever have it again the way things are now. I' have very rich memories. As do most of you , I'm sure
I was born in 1967 & remember all of these, what great memories you brought back.
Thank you.
My best friend growing up was Scotty!! We were going to leave Michigan and take over Australia together…..he now owns a funeral home franchise and I’m a 5th generation Kellogg employee. Does life get any better 🤨😖☺️
@@Jewlietoo
One of my good friends is from Michigan, I always pick at her funny accent & she picks at mine.
I grew up in a small farm town in N.C. & she sometimes has a hard time understanding my Southern draw accent.
Do you know that Kellogg’s was the company that pushed our lousy food pyramid because he was a SDA (Seventh Day Adventist) and they thought meat caused lust, so they forced more carbs and sugar on us. Some of our congressman were in on it and made a lot of money. True story!
A awesome nostalgic ride 99% used/owned/ watched everything on this list. Thank You 👍🏽
I became a teenager in 1974, what a great time to be a kid ! I have to say this took me back to a time that was like no other. Great times indeed !
Born in 58 everytime I see things from this time it makes me sad that kids will never know how great a time this was! Keep your technology its done nothing! People are sad and lonely these days because of it all 😢
Boomer
@@tinacalhoun4830It’s true, though. The youth these days are a pathetic bunch. Go back to your safe room!😂
My grandkids don’t do anything, looking at their phone constantly have to be told daily what needs to be cleaned or empties will not clean after themselves. Each one eats only what they want so my daughter would make 2 or 3 items for dinner. I wasn’t raised like that and she wasn’t either. But here we are😂🎉
@@tinacalhoun4830Something wrong with that?